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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 - 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leda do instead, after having the urge to tell Nina and Elena they do not know how to play?
(a) She reads and stops watching them.
(b) She goes to the bar for a drink.
(c) She dips her feet in the water.
(d) She packs her things in a fury and leaves.

2. In Chapter 19, Leda reflects on a time her professor invited her to a conference on which writer?
(a) D.H. Lawrence.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) E.M. Forster.

3. In what way did Leda's daughters play with her as if she were a doll when they were young?
(a) They would brush her teeth and hair.
(b) They would tuck her in to sleep.
(c) They would change her outfits.
(d) They would pretend to feed her.

4. What does Leda bring to the beach with her the morning after she took sleeping pills and slept well in Chapter 18?
(a) Two bottles of wine.
(b) The doll and the new clothes.
(c) Her old doll Mina.
(d) Homemade brownies.

5. What does Leda say when Giovanni asks about the doll in her apartment?
(a) She says it is her good luck charm.
(b) She says she found it and wanted to clean it before giving it back to Elena.
(c) She says she stole it from the child.
(d) She says she has no idea how it got there.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Giovanni?

2. How old does Leda think the young mother in the Neapolitan family is?

3. How old was Leda when she had her second child?

4. What secret does Gino tell Leda he knows about Nina?

5. What did Leda once give to Bianca to ease her jealously of her new sister?

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